Category: NG8B

This was the first set of real DX that I was able to make out above the noise. DK3EE was calling CQ on 80m and this is how it all went down. SWL Recording Cool stuff I tell ya! I think I’m going to need a better receive...

It’s never the right time to do anything. Well, it almost never is. I had the antenna sitting in my garage waiting to be be installed since around February. Of course it wasn’t doing any good in the garage. Why was...

So I have my antenna up and I took the time to run through the SWR charts for all of the bands. I can say it lives up to expectations — it resonates everywhere it was claimed to. I do have a bit of tuning I need to do on...

The GAP Titan has been installed and it’s working! It took a bit of time to get it done. I think it’s about 8-10 hours that I spent all told over the weekend not counting the time spent getting the feedline fished...

Why don’t you come over and look how long it is. It’s hard to imagine it fit in that small box! Can you feel it? No. I’ll wiggle it for you. Can you feel me? I feel you! I Feel you! I guess I have to use the...

Earlier in the year I wired up a Comet GP15 antenna in my attic. Yesterday I finally had a chance to test it! It’s nice being able to peer inside what seems like such a closed system: an antenna and a feedline. In my tests...

We made it past a major milestone last night: we have a way of getting the antenna feedline out of the house! This was a harder job than I expected. Maybe it’s because I never did it. Let’s take a step back though....

Yesterday I passed my second piece of traffic for the national traffic system. Here’s something I came up with to help out: an Evernote template manage all that. It started with the PDF template that was linked to from the...

Just to be clear these aren’t in the normal sequence so if you’re following this (yeah, other than you Scrapple… :-) ) you’ll see these again in a few months. Why am I posting these? One reason: Current...

I started to post the QSL card that Vic W8DFL from Parma. En’s uncle Bill gave us the stack of QSL cards that Vic collected over the years. I just got a response from NØUN. Wayne grew up across the street from Vic....

Finally, after nearly a year of trying (ok, a year consists of maybe half a dozen attempts) I was able to have a QSO on D*STAR! You can check the log at the WB8THD repeater if you look quick enough. I’m NG8B/M on there. I...